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What the hell? "With Kostolnik’s permission, they installed a packet sniffer on his network to try and get to the bottom of the incidents." They installed a p
by pdenya 15y ago
What the hell?
"With Kostolnik’s permission, they installed a packet sniffer on his network to try and get to the bottom of the incidents."
They installed a packet logger but didn't bother changing the encryption to something stronger than WEP!? Crazy.
Edit: They likely already knew who was responsible since it had to be a neighbor but even if they didn't, the Secret Service had to show up investigating death threats to Biden for this log to be looked at.
Hind site is 20/20 and all that but I would likely have handled this differently.
- pyre 15y agoI imagine they wanted to find out who was doing it.
- coderdude 15y agoWhat would be the point of the packet logger if they attempted to change the encryption? Wasn't the point to try and catch someone?
- elithrar 15y ago> They installed a packet logger but didn't bother changing the encryption to something stronger than WEP!? Crazy. They likely wanted to find the source of the intrusion and prosecute against it, not block it out completely. Changing to WPA2 w/ AES would have likely stopped the attacks, but it wouldn't have helped them find out who initiated them.
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- biot 15y agoImagine if someone was sneaking through your basement window at night and you installed a video camera to see who is sneaking in and causing trouble. If you remove the window and replace it with solid concrete, what do you expect your video camera to record?